"What is breaking my heart tonight?" she wrote. "The challenge remains in becoming aware of and identifying victims of cyberbullying and cyber harassment, as well as identifying those individuals committing the offenses," she added.Īfter reporting the new group to Facebook, Cuomo took to Twitter to comment about how incidents like this affect not only the women involved but survivors everywhere.
Carla Gleason told the outlet that the Department of Defense will continue to monitor all social media activity. Nevertheless, as Vice News pointed out, this latest report indicates that the issue is still a problem within the armed forces. In the wake of that incident, 93 female Marines penned an open letter that described the military culture as a place "where men are permitted or even expected to behave like animals, and women trespass at their peril." The incident later motivated lawmakers to allocate funds for Marine Corps leaders to "battle misogyny within the ranks," and, in May 2017, the secret sharing of explicit photos became a crime under military law. The name of the Facebook group in question refers to another group, Marines United, which had been investigated last year for sharing nude photos of female service members and veterans. Vice added that neither Facebook nor Dropbox responded to requests for comment. On Tuesday, March 6, the group was shut down by Facebook after Marine Corps veteran Erin Kirk Cuomo alerted the social media platform to its existence. Vice News noted that the link allegedly made its initial appearance last month on a Facebook group called Blame Marines United (Non-Butthurt Edition), which is reportedly open only to men.
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